Note 1289 — Chapter V · GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF BELIEF.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Comp. the short ode of M. Antonio Flaminio in the Coryciana (see p. 269):
Dii quibus tam Corycius venusta Signa, tam dives posuit sacellum, Ulla si vestros animos piorum Gratia tangit, Vos jocos risusque senis faceti Sospites servate diu; senectam Vos date et semper viridem et Falerno Usque madentem. At simul longo satiatus ævo Liquerit terras, dapibus Deorum Lætus intersit, potiore mutans Nectare Bacchum.
[1290] Firenzuola, Opere, iv. p. 147 sqq.
[1291] Nic. Valori, Vita di Lorenzo, passim. For the advice to his son Cardinal Giovanni, see Fabroni, Laurentius, adnot. 178, and the appendices to Roscoe’s Leo X.
[1292] Jo. Pici Vita, auct. Jo. Franc. Pico. For his ‘Deprecatio ad Deum,’ see Deliciae Poetarum Italorum.
[1293] Orazione, Roscoe, Leone X. ed. Bossi viii. 120 (Magno Dio per la cui costante legge); hymn (oda il sacro inno tutta la natura) in Fabroni,’ Laur. adnot. 9; L’Altercazione, in the Poesie di Lor. Magn. i. 265. The other poems here named are quoted in the same collection.
[1294] If Pulci in his Morgante is anywhere in earnest with religion, he is so in canto xvi. str. 6. This deistic utterance of the fair pagan Antea is perhaps the plainest expression of the mode of thought prevalent in Lorenzo’s circle, to which tone the words of the dæmon Astarotte (quoted above p. 494) form in a certain sense the complement.